Applevariety
Scotch Dumpling
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-green skin, round in shape; tart. Picked in late August.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Texture
- fine
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour slightly flushed pinkish orangeSkin texture greasyBackground colour pale yellowish green
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate, sometimes flat, conic to truncate-conic, convex, asymmetric
- Size
- largeFruit width 70-85 mmFruit height 60-73 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eye, broadly ribbed on bodyRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye, broadly ribbed on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- intermediate, sometimes flat, conic to truncate-conic, convex, asymmetric
- fruit width
- 70-85 mm
- over colour
- slightly flushed pinkish orange
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 60-73 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- fine
- ground colour
- pale yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.